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Criminals and Perps in Local Government…UPDATE!
If We Didn't Make Our Inquiries and Get the Facts
You'd Probably Never Know!
But It Is Obvious that We have the Foxes Guarding the Chickens but Now the Foxes are Under Investigation.
The Ravena News Herald, once a community news publication, has turned into a drugged up feel-good rag that doesn't have the balls to report on anything less than the absolutely positive. Why should it? It's the "official newspaper" of the village of Ravena which means that John T. Bruno, Nancy Biscone-Warner, and Michael J. Biscone own them. Besides, the most of the News Herald is copied from the Greene County News and a lot of what we get to read isn't even about this community, anyway. They're really happy that they can fill up eight or so pages with "official notices", though, because that's where the money is.
So, dear readers, be grateful that at least some from the community have the guts to collect the real news and publish it in this form. It's a community service, one of the very few you're likey ever to get in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk district.
So here's what we have for you today:
The Village of Ravena, Mayor John T. Bruno, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Cathy Deluca and the Ravena Health and Fitness Center
Citzen v. Village of Ravena, Cathy Deluca, et al.
The Ravena Health and Fitness Center has been the subject of several articles on this blog. The most recent one features Cathy Deluca asserting her "ownership" of the taxpayer paid municipal activity by telling a local resident he was not welcome at the public facility and telling him to leave. After having abused the resident and having violated his civil rights, Deluca attempted to file a criminal charge against the resident by the only way she knows: lies. So the village of Ravena never learns from its mistakes goes the extra mile and is footing the bill…OOPS! Now you're footing the bill, Ravena taxpayers, to fund the Cathy Deluca's defense! The Village of Ravena is now depending on its insurance carrier, Trident Insurance, to come to its rescue in the Cathy Deluca misconduct case. The village insurance company has hired Napierski, VanDenburgh, Napierski & O'Connor, an Albany law firm, who regularly defend municipalities in various claims involving allegations of civil rights violations, premises liability and labor law, to handle the case. Attorney Andrew S. Holland is the attorney handling the case.
The § 50h hearing will be scheduled soon and there'll be some surprises popped on ol' Cathy D. and her minions. There'll be fireworks to be sure.
It's still a mystery how the village of Ravena could spend $40,000 of taxpayer money to buy the used fitness equipment and to create the fitness center which, by the way pays no rent to the village–but you'll recall the village was charging the RCS Community library a hefty rent and then raised it about $600 a month (you, Ravena taxpayers, paid). And then mayor Bruno and Nancy Biscone-Warner went ahead and put the fitness center in the village budget, allocating $115,500 to fund it.
It gets even stickier: We've found out that on April 5, 2013, mayor John T. Bruno applied to the Albany County Civil Service Department for the creation of a new job title, "Fitness Center Director". We all know that the position was created back in late 2012 for Cathy Deluca, and at the April 2, 2013, village of Ravena Organizational Meeting, Nancy Warner moved to "appoint" Cathy Deluca to the position of Fitness Center Director and the village board went ahead and appointed her. The situations starts to get more sinister when we examine mayor Bruno's application, which was approved on about May 10, 2013. The application is rife with ambiguities, inaccuracies, deficiencies. It is possible (likely) that the village of Ravena did not honestly produce all the documents requested and that some of the documents accompanying the application and substantiating the information were not provided to us. But that's no big problem to find out. But if the village of Ravena did not provide the required documentation substantiating their statements and misrepresened either by commission or omission with the intent to mislead the Albany County Civil Service Department, then there is a big problem…for mayor Bruno and the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, and Cathy Deluca and Nancy Warner.
Our readers may be interested in the fact that the job title of Fitness Center Director is "exempt" and non-competitive, despite the fact that most positions of that kind require examination and competition. The interesting fact is that it appears from the documents we have received that the application did not include the required explanations and justifications for the program, for the position, and why it should be exempt. We'll be curious how and why the Albany County Civil Service Department could approve such a deficient application. C orruption, conspiracy? What do you think?
If you'd like more information on the Civil Service job title classifications, including those of the Albany County Civil Service Department click on this link: Civil Service Overview You decide whether the job title of Fitness Center Director should be "exempt" or "competitive". You can then decide whether the job should have been open for applications instead of appointing the director, Cathy Deluca, with no one else being considered.
It may be a village project and it may be on public property but it's obvious everyone is not welcome; Cathy Deluca makes the decision whether you're welcome or not and when her decision blows up in her face, the village of Ravena (that is, Ravena taxpayers) pays her legal defense and attorney fees. How do they do it?
Cathy D. is Not the Only Deluca on the Hot Seat These Days. Hubby Gerald "Dirty Hands Jerry Deluca" is Feeling the Heat, Too!
Jerry Deluca and the Coeymans Police Department
Gerald "Dirty-Hands Jerry" Deluca, Cathy Deluca's chubby hubby, has a long history of suspicious activities ranging from his questionable claims of political contacts in Albany (such as the Department of Environmental Conservation, the New York State Assembly, an automotive recycling interest group, ARANY, and others), his retaliatory obstruction of police investigations, his questionable influence peddling in the Albany County District Attorney's office—no doubt assisted by Coeymans police chief Gregory Darlington's wife, who is P. David Soares' secretary and Ravena village justice Harold "Hal" Warner's daugher, who is an attorney there (Nancy Biscone-Warner is the Ravena village trustee who fought hard for the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, spearheaded the center's budget, and put Cathy Deluca in the director's slot. Smell any corruption and conspiracy yet?
Deluca again acted up real badly with RCS CSD teacher and NYSUT union rep Matthew J. "Matt the Mutt" Miller, at the May 14, 2013, RCS CSD board of education meeting, where Deluca and Miller were involved in such disorderly conduct that RCS CSD superintendent Alan McCartney told them to leave the premises. They didn't leave but waited outside to menace and harass a woman speaker, whom they had already abused while she was addressing the board!
Deluca was apparently off-duty when he and Miller engaged in their criminal conduct but that's no excuse. They are both public employees and occupy highly visible positions paid by the public. They're held to a higher standard than Joe Average. But they've been doing this sort of thing for so long they apparently think they can get away with it forever. Wrong again, Jerry!
What do you think bully-BoBo-cop Deluca would have done under the same circumstances if it were you or I making the ruckus and violating a resident's rights? Old Rolly-Polly would pull out his badge, show his service revolver and cuff ya! Anybody think he wouldn't? So that's equal protection under the law?
OK. The complaint has been filed. Numerous law enforcement agencies and NY state agencies have been copied with the correspondence. But…Are we seeing things? The Coeymans Police Department is supposed to be investigating one of its own on criminal charges but Deluca's still lurking around the department, still on duty, still…well wouldn't it be more appropriate if while the investigation is on Deluca would be put on leave? Well, it looks like being chief Darlington's darling has its benefits but it certainly puts Darlington in a sticky position. How's the investigation going, chief Darlington? Or is that a state secret?
Matt Miller is Failing
According to unconfirmed reports from a reliable source it looks like outside investigators are finally taking an interest in the goings on in Ravena-Coeymans and there is allegedly special interest in Guess who? You got it! Our very own Bo-Bo cop, Dirty-Hands Jerry. Seem's a particular law enforcement agency has been watching and is asking some pretty irksome questions at the Coeymans Police Department. But you didn't hear that from us.
Matthew J. Miller a.k.a. "Matt-the-Mutt" isn't off the hook, either. He's been put on the carpet several times already and his corruption and conspiracy file is getting pretty damned thick. His performance alongside Deluca on May 14th didn't endear him to the RCS CSD district offices, either. Miller is a blow-hard big mouth who apparently thinks that because he's NYSUT's (New York State United Teachers) union's local rep that he's untouchable. Maybe in terms of school administration he may be a hard nut to crack but he's not going to get much sympathy when he's standing before the great equalizer—a court of law, criminal law. Miller's despicable public conduct and his disrespect of women will be his downfall. Say bye to teaching license. Bye to pension. Hello Big Bubba! You get "bottom bunk" Matty.
We have unconfirmed information from reliable sources that some departments at the New York State Education Department is watching Miller pretty closely. Seems they may be building a case against him. So watch his falling star…Is the end near?
Ravena-Coeymans' Own Three Stooges
Jerry Deluca, Cathy Deluca, Matt Miller
Stick around for the next article. You'll get a whirlwind tour of the Ravena village board at work and the story behind the Ravena Health and Fitness Center directly from the Ravena village board minutes. Learn how they hoodwinked the Albany County Civil Service people into creating a new job title, Fitness Center Director, for Cathy Deluca. But she has no qualifications…or does she? We're still waiting for the village of Ravena to disclose just what qualifies her to be director. You'll find it all here, as usual, direct from the sources to you!
We'll also get the ball rolling on how Ravena-Coeymans is going to hell in a handbasket made in Taiwan. How? Think of it this way: Laverne "Larry" Conrad, Coeymans building inspector and code enforcement officer has his eye on mayor John T. Bruno's office. Think he has a chance? Well, on the other side of the counterfeit coin there's Martin "Marty" Case—you know the teacher who allegedly likes to chaperone and party at the same time and who sells real estate with Josie Bruno (and just about everyone else on the Ravena village board) at Prudential Real Estate. Case wants Coeymans supervisor Stephen Flach's job. Think he has a chance?
We'd better start talking real fast because with mayor Bruno's and Michael Biscone's record on curtailing civil rights, and and ignorance of what she is and where she is, Biscone's liable to be writing another decree for Bruno suppressing free speech like he did in 2009 when he tried to put the kabosh on open government. (See our article on this blog.)
Then there's Michael J. Biscone, on-again-off-again village of Ravena attorney doing on-again-off-again work for the town of Coeymans but Ravena can't find any of the financial records that show how much Biscone was raking in while apparently working all sides of the fence. Ever wonder why Ravena can never find its financial records? Well, we thought the Office of the New York State Comptroller and the Office of the Attorney General might find some of this a bit interesting, especially in view of recent audits. Stay tuned for upcoming reports.
And then there's Gregory Teresi who resigns one day and is hired back on as "village court criminal attorney." We know he's a criminal but village court is no place for him. He should be appearing in front of daddy, Joe Teresi, New York State supreme court.
Posted by Principal Editor on June 27, 2013 in 2Luck.com, Abuse, Abuse of Public Office, Accountability, AFL-CIO, Albany County Civil Service Department, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Andrew Holland, Andrew Stephen Holland, ARANY, Bitter Bob (Ross), Bob Ross, BoBo Cop, Brown and Weinraub, Capital District, Cathy Deluca, Cecilia Tkaczyk, Civil Right Violation, Civil Rights, Coercion, Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Attorney, Committee on Open Government, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Crooked Cop, David Soares, DEC, Deluca-Warner Fitness Center, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dick Iannuzzi, Dr Alan R. McCartney, Eleanor Luckacovic, Eleanor Oldham, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Falsely reporting an incident, FBI, FBI Criminal Information System, FBI Public Corruption Squad, Fitness Center, Formal Written Complaint, Freedom of Information Law, Gerald Deluca, Greene County, Gregory Darlington, Harassment, Harold Warner, Hudson Valley, Intimidation, Investigation, Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, Jerry Deluca, Joan Ross, John Luckacovic, John T. Bruno, Kerry Thompson, Larry Conrad, Laverne Conrad, Law Enforcement, Main Street Small Business Coalition, Making an apparently sworn false statement, Martin Case, Marty Case, Matt "the Mutt", Matt Miller, Matthew J. Miller, Mayor Bruno, Michael Biscone, Michael J. Biscone, Misconduct, Misuse of Public Office, MSSBC, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, Napierski, Napierski & O'Connor, New Baltimore, New York, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State, New York State Education Department, New York State United Teachers, Notice of Claim, NYCLU, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, NYSED, NYSUT, Obstruction of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, P. David Soares, Perjury, Perjury and related offenses, Pete Lopez, Public Corruption, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Fitness Center, Ravena Village Board, RCSTA, RCSTA Executive Committee, Retaliation, Richard Ianuzzi, Selkirk, Smalbany, Stephen Flach, Teachers Union, Thomas A. Boehm, Thomas E. Dolan, Tkaczyk, Tom Dolan, Transparency, Trident Insurance, Uncategorized, United Federation of Teachers, William Bailey
It's Important to You…We can do better for our teens and youth!
Everyone these Days Seems to Believe that They're "Entitled,"
That they Have a Right to Something, Everything, Without Work or Investment.
That's The American LIE!
They'll see through your lies!
And Where that Bullshit Frame of Mind Came From Nobody Seems To Care But It's A Slippery Slope and Loaded with Unpleasant Surprises
The fact is, parents may think they're giving their kids what the kids need but the parents don't really have a clue. Do they? The parents are constantly pushing (their kids and government), demanding (of the kids and of administrators) more, More, MORE! And so on that idiotic, unrealistic example, the kids want more, More, MORE and there's soon less, Less, LESS to give—at least less of anything worth having, that is. So, the parents came from a disposable society and culture and their kids have learned the lesson well. Where does it all lead, this mindset of individualism, "my rights", "I need", "Whatever!" "If it feels good, do it!" Well, Ravena found out this past week when a 20-year old forced a young girl to "pleasure" him—at knife-point! Is that what it's coming to? I want and you're going to give. Is that what you parents are teaching your children?
Sure, you go out and "realize yourselves," advance your careers and have the jobs because you want your kids to have a better life. Lies! Stop deceiving yourselves! You grew up in a liberal, post-modern world that emphasized individualism, false-egos, materialism. You have become the drones of capitalism and the 1% and don't even have the brains to realize it! The lights are on but nobody's home in Brainville! Duh-ha-ha! The feminists have scandalized womanhood and motherhood; the women have degraded themselves and as a consequence have destroyed American manhood. Just look at some of the male characters portrayed on prime-time TV. Fat, stupid, humiliated. American Idol, reality TV…and you all eat it up, living other people's lives and not realizing that you're forgetting your own lives and are becoming increasingly…ugly!
This ain't better when you're 16!
So, that's the reproductive-age adults in our midst. Depressed, overweight, hateful, ignorant, and reproducing a generation of lonely, overfed, over-stimulated, precociously hormonally overdosed (thanks to the food industry's profit projections), lonely, frightened, aggressive, angry children…children who think they are adults because they're forced by adults to think that way…it's easier for the adults when they can manipulate their children into thinking they can fend for themselves while the female and male breeding partners—please note I did not write "parents"— are off "realizing" their "selves."
Here's an exchange on unsupervised Facebook activity by a group of middle-school girls (Names have been changed, of course!):
Jessy: … your the one that needs to grow up, say it to our faces not on facebook…. when you apply for a job they check your facebook, this will come back to haunt youJ
Nancy: Why are you doing this? If they are not going to throw the first punch them be the better person and stop. Your what 13? You shouldn't be fighting. If they wanna act stupid then let them but do not go down to their level because your making yourself angry just thinking about it and runing your summer. Do you want to do that? Stop the fighting. Seriously.
Angie: no it wont jess u said u wanted to kill me that is against the law u told me how u would do it too so yea dont fuck with me or my family.
Jessy: Nancy, i dont wanna fight her but she keeps sayin this stuff, the truth behind it was that i was losing my temper, and i cant control myself under my temper. and tati that is such a lie i never said that, telling the story from fifth grade/ getting punched in the collar bone, wont kill you for one and for two i said leave me alone before someone gets hurt, implying anyone including myself, example i punched a metal door and have a huge bruise on my wrist
Angie: thats ur own faut i told u not to say it u still said im done i mean idk if i can ever trust u again i mean like my mom sent me to albany
Jessy: not to say what? and idrc if you dont trust me, idrc if we stay friends, just one less person i have to put on my list of people to deal with… i dont really need more than the four or five friends i have
Angie: and ur gonna lose them too if u aint careful
Nancy: Then you need to look for help if you can't control your temper. Idc who started, idc who wants to fight who. Tati ik you are my cousin but both of you guys GROWN UP!!!!!! Damn, you aren't little kids. You are teenagers.
Angie: love u too nicki
Jessy: tati just let it go. i am. cuz i dont really care anymore, this is just a fight over i dont eben remember, that i dont even care who wins…
Jessy: so lets just end it
Angie: fine are we friends tho
Nancy: Then stop fighting. Leave this girl alone and girl leave my cousin alone, grow up and stop this. Tati jobs and colleges do go through your Facebook and won't hire people because of certain things posted.
Angie: idc right now nicki me and her be talking
Nancy: Ok do you not know how to talk now? "Me and her be talking?" Tati if you guys "be" talking then don't be fighting. There's no point of it. Its not necessary.
Prissy*: I don't want to see any more fighting on here
Prissy*: OR ELSE
Angie: or ealse what
Prissy*: jobs will check your facebook, like Nicki said
Nancy: Colleges do to! No matter if your 13 or if you remove the comments. You out something on the internet and it is there FOREVER!
Prissy*: There is no need for this fighting
Prissy*: you can never take it back! pages are cached. (stored)
Prissy*: Good, I hope this is over
* It must be noted that "Prissy" is an adult. Wouldn't you reasonably expect an adult to have warned parents or teachers of this brewing assault?
Well, readers, it was NOT all over…just a couple of days after this exchange took place on Facebook Jessy was brutally attacked, injured, by another girl at the RCS middle school.
So, what subsurface messages did you read in the exchange between the girls? So what impressed you most? The anger, the aggression, the difference between the girls? Did you catch the anxiety, suspicion of the Internet? How about the language? What does that tell you about where these future parents, women, taxpayers, decision-makers are going to be ten years from now? Where were the parents when all of this was brewing? Where were the teachers and teachers' aids when the brutality took place?
We may be overly optimistic, but this is what we predict.
The schools are not "for the kids", they're for the teachers!
The schools, no matter how advanced your self-deception may be, are not there to parent, and they're doing a pretty lousy job (judging by the language in the Facebook exchange) of teaching, too! In fact, no matter what lies you are telling yourselves—and believing—the millions ($41.2 for 2013-14) you are shelling out for school budgets are not "for the kids;" those millions are for the teachers, the coaches, the administrators. [Editor's Note: Voters just approved a $41.2 million school budget for 2013-2014, voted-in three teacher clique lackies James Latter, Jason Hyslop and shyster Patrick Brown (husband of Mary Partridge-Brown, "close friend" of NYSUT (teachers union) rep Matt Miller; voters re-elected a perv, James Latter, to the board. And you think there's no conspiracy, no corruption going on in the school system?]
Still think there's no conspiracy, no corruption? Well let's look at an example from real RCS CSD in-crowd life: Ron Racey, an RCS CSD athletics staff member is retiring and was making more than $120,000 a year out of the school budget monies…plus benefits! (That's almost 3x the average household income in the town of Coeymans, by the way!) One man in a non-essential position on the school payroll making 3x more than the average household [Editor's note: that's household, not person! The average per capita income in 2010 was $21,686.] Most instructional staff in the RCS CSD are making 2-3x the average household income and 4-6x the average per capita income of RCS residents. Now, do you really think that the schools and the school budgets are "for the kids" or for the teachers and administrators? Think about that again and then think about what kind of morals and ethics the kids have, what their social skills are like, what their outlooks on life are, how they talk, and how they interact. You'll likely come to the same conclusion we have: The schools are not for the kids, they're for the teachers!
The village of Ravena budgeted more than $115,000 in the village 2013-14 budget to fund the Ravena Health and Fitness Center…
Bruno-Warner-Deluca
Village of Ravena
We recently reported how the village of Ravena purchased more than $40,000 in used workout machines and equipment from a "friend of the Ravena village board" without public inputs or comment. That's $40,000 of Ravena taxpayer's money for junk. In that same article we exposed how the village of Ravena budgeted more than $115,000 in the village 2013-14 budget to fund the Ravena Health and Fitness Center now located in the former space occupied by the RCS Community Library. That's $115,000 of taxpayer money to fund a Heap and Fatness Center modeled on the same incompetent scheme of the one that failed in Ravena several years ago, when there was actually some businesses left and some residents left in the village. So that's $115,000 for something that the village does not need at all and will probably be a waste of resources. Well, a waste for some, but it's a gold mine for others: Mayor John T. Bruno and his hatchet-woman Nancy Biscone-Warner must have owed the Delucas or their godfather for some favor because Guess Who? got "appointed" to be the director of the Ravena Heap and Fatness Center: Cathy Deluca, the very manager who managed the failed fitness center in Ravena. [Editor's Note: Don't forget this in March for village elections, when it's election time and mayor Bruno is running for re-election, and in November, when his minions Martin Case or William Bailey are running for town offices!]
So here's the breakdown of the kid's situation in Ravena-Coeymans: You go on Facebook unsupervised and tear each other apart in pseudo-English, threatening to do serious damage to each other (and these are the middle-school girls!). Then you go to school where the administrators are under a state mandated requirement to supervise and oversee students to avoid bullying and to ensure the safety of the kids…and you get the living shite kicked out of you. While all of this is going on the village of Ravena in it's great wisdom is shelling out more than $115,000 for a Heap and Fatness Center, ignoring the problems in its parks and on the streets, ignoring its young people while padding the palms of its supporters and friends. Just down the street a young woman is being held at knifepoint and sexually abused, and the police stop a drunken father with his teenage daughter in the car (he's just out of jail, on a suspended license, and under the influence) and allow him to drive on. Voters approve more than $41 million dollars for the RCS CSD school budget, while paying teaching and athletics staff 4-6x the average per capita income of RC residents! And the kids are still being brutalized, still speak English worse than illegal aliens, and are walking the streets or getting raped in the park! Are you really following all of this? WAKE THE HELL UP, PEOPLE!
Posted by Principal Editor on June 24, 2013 in Abuse of Public Office, Accountability, Albany, Albany County Department of Children, Albany County Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Executive, Albany County Sheriff Department, Anti-Bullying Law, Bill Bailey, Bryan Rowzee, Business, Capital District, Cathy Deluca, Cecilia Tkaczyk, Child Abuse, Church of St Patrick Ravena, Coeymans, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Board, Coin Drop, Community, Conspiracy, Corruption, Dawn Rogers, Deluca-Warner Fitness Center, Diane Malecki, Dick Iannuzzi, Dignity Act, Dr Alan R. McCartney, Endangering a Minor, Ethics and Morality, Faith and Family Values, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Greater Coeymans Ravena Area Community Business Group, Greene County, Hudson Valley, Hypocrisy, indifference to the safety and welfare of a child, James Latter, James Latter II, Jason Hyslop, Jena Misuraca, Jerry Perrine, John B. King, John J. Biscone, John T. Bruno, Kyle Smith, Latter-Hyslop-Brown, Law Enforcement, Martin Case, Marty Case, Mary Partridge-Brown, Matt "the Mutt", Matt Miller, Matthew J. Miller, Mayor Bruno, Michael Biscone, Michael Fisher, Michael J. Biscone, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, National Bank of Coxsackie, New Baltimore, New York, New York State, New York State Education Department, New York State United Teachers, News Channel 10, News Channel 13, News Channel 6, Not-for-Profit, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, NYSED, NYSUT, Office of the Attorney General, Patrick E. Brown, Pete Lopez, Peter Masti, PriceChopper, Public Corruption, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Coeymans Youth and Teen Activities Center, Ravena Fitness Center, Ravena Health and Fitness Center, Ravena Village Board, Ravena-Coeymans Teen Center, RC Teen Activities Center, RCS Bottle Blitz, RCS Business Group, RCS Central School District, RCS Champions, RCS Community, RCS Sports Association, RCS Teachers Association, Richard Ianuzzi, Robert Fisk, Rocco Persico, Ron Racey, School Security, School Violence, Selkirk, Shame On You, Shop'n Save, Smalbany, Stephen Flach, Teacher Negligence, Teachers Union, Teen Deaths, Teen Pregnancy, Thomas A. Boehm, Thomas E. Dolan, Times Union, Tom Dolan, Transparency, United Federation of Teachers, William Bailey, Youth, Youth Bureau
What's the Village of Ravena Trying to Hide? Disclosure of Legal Fees.
As Many of Our Readers Know, Getting Disclosure from the Village of Ravena is As Easy As Finding a Chicken's Teeth!
We Found'Em!
Ravena Can Run But They Can't Hide!
Let's see: Ravena Village Clerk. Isn't the office of the village clerk an elected office? Let's ask Kristine Biernacki or Annette Demitraszek, they should know, right? Actually, anywhere else, the village clerk would probably be elected. But not in Ravena! Village law allows the mayor to appoint and the village board to approve the mayor's appointment to the office of village of Ravena Clerk. Smell INCEST here?
Ravena Village Trustee Nancy Biscone-Warner. Isn't the office of village trustee an elected office? Well, is it Nancy Biscone-Warner? And what about the office of the mayor of the village of Ravena, that's an elected office, isn't it? Well, isn't it John Bruno? Well, aren't public servants, elected officials supposed to serve the community? Aren't they supposed to serve the best interests of the community who put them in office? Well, can anyone tell us why Demitraszek, Biscone-Warner, Bruno are doing their best to stonewall? What are they trying to hide? Wouldn't you think they could come up with the documents and the figures for the village of Ravena's legal expenses? It's public information after all!
Committee for Open Government (NY Department of State!) and Robert J. Freeman. Nancy Biscone-Warner is really working hard to keep it all under wraps, even upstaging the village clerk Demitraszek and passing on misinformation to a club member at the Committee for Open Government (now that's a joke!), attorney Robert J. Freeman, who plays their cute little game with them. The incest club hard at work. Well Robert J. Freeman is a political appointee and has been occupying the executive director's office of the Committee for Open Government for more than 36 years! Isn't there something wrong with that? It sounds like somebody's getting rewarded for some hefty favors, doesn't it? Sorta like our own little nest of thieves rewarding Cathy Deluca with the Ravena Health and Fitness Center and the position of director. Right Nancy Biscone-Warner? Must be Nancy's "Biscone" showing through. Right, Nancy? Stinks of raw sewerage from Albany all the way down to Ravena village hall. And you're paying for it all…through the nose!
We Could Start With Ravena Village Offices
What's theVillage of Ravena Trying to Hide?
The Request to Disclose Legal Fees Paid to Attorneys Between 2000 and 2013.
We have acquired documents served on the village of Ravena under the provisions of the New York State Freedom of Information Law (F.O.I.L.) that demand that the village of Ravena produce documents showing the amount and the recipient of legal fees and payments. In short the demand for disclosure and production of docments read:
"For the period of on or about January 1, 1990 to on or about January 1, 2013 all invoices, statements, requests for payment, expense reports, demands for payment, or vouchers, or such documents that otherwise authorize or show payment in an amount certain for legal services provided by the law firm or partners or associates of the law firm of Michael J. Biscone or the law firm of Biscone and Neri, or Louis Neri, Esq., or Michael J. Biscone, Esq., including but not by limitation any compensation for activity as a public official for or on behalf of the village of Ravena."
Other parts of the F.O.I.L include similar requests for payments made to Joseph C. Rotello or any law firm of Joseph C. Rotello, or Joseph C. Rotello, Esq.; the law firm of John T. Biscone or any law firm of John T. Biscone, or John T. Biscone, Esq.; the law firm of Gregory Teresi or any law firm of Gregory Teresi, or Gregory Teresi, Esq., and further requests
"Please note that if the particulars (the attorney invoice number, the matter number, or the substance of the matter) of the service for which payment is requested is not stated in the voucher, this request also demands production of any document specifically identifying the specifics of the service (such as the attorney invoice) for which payment is being authorized but not the documents memorializing the matter itself."
Having served the F.O.I.L demands, the requestor adds:
"Please find attached my demand for disclosure under the provisions of the NYS FOIL.
"Please contact me promptly if you have any questions relating to this demand."
The first village of Ravena response received by the citizen making the request reads:
"Please be advised that your request for legal services payments does not reasonably describe records in our possession because our vouchers are fiiled in chronological order not by subject." (Kristine Biernacki, Village Clerk)
Isn't that interesting? The request for "legal services payments does not reasonably describe records" in the village of Ravena's possession." And why? Because the village of Ravena's filing system is in "chronological order not by subject." Now, we're not talking the Borough of Manhattan, we're talking about receipts and vouchers for legal services paid by the village of Ravena. But you see where this is going, don't you?
The requestor replies:
"The FOIL is not required anticipate, to comply with or to allow for record-keeping idiosyncrasies of the custodian of the demanded records; the fact that you state that records particularized and specified in the FOIL might represent a "request for legal services payments [that] does not reasonably describe records in our possession" is clearly insufficient grounds for refusing to produce the documents demanded in the FOIL. The fact that the village of Ravena maintains its payment vouchers chronologically does not reasonably represent an absolute impediment or imppossibility of production whatsoever. It simply means that your search will necessarily have to be made chronologically in the absence of a more crossreferenced or alternative system of records keeping. That has no bearing whatsoever on the demands of the FOIL in question. [emphasis provided]
Not having heard a peep from the village of Ravena, the requestor writes:
"Can you please provide an update on the progress of your fulfillment of the production demand of the amended legal fees FOIL."
Biernacki does the Dancing Turkey
Ravena village clerk Kristine Biernacki replies on March 19, 2013:
"I am extremely busy right now collecting for Village water/sewer bills and I am working alone now with a part time person, so it will be some time before I am able to fulfill your request."
Reading between the lines: I'm too busy right now collecting money for mayor Bruno to waste my time complying with state of New York laws.
The Requestor writes back:
"Thank you, Kris, for the heads-up. I appreciate it.
"Please do keep me updated."
Sounds friendly enough, right. First the village tries to get out of producing the records because they claim the request doesn't reasonbly describe the records being requested. Now, they are saying that they can't get to it because they're collecting water and sewer bills. All along, the requestor is obviously patient and courteous.
So, along comes April 1, 2013, and the deadline for the village's response is just days away, and the requestor contacts the village:
"I am following up on the production in response to my foil below.
"Can you please provide a date certain when you expect to have the Village's response ready?"
Are you getting the feeling somebody's getting the run-around? I do!
So April 10, 2013, rolls around and the requestor has to write again:
"I need to know when I can expect the information demanded in the legal fees FOIL.
" I am willing to wait until Friday, April 12, 2013, 12:00 noon for the full response; after that, I'm afraid I shall have to presume that the village of Ravena is refusing to comply with a lawful demand, and I shall submit a complaint to the Office of the State Attorney General together with a request for investigation.
"My last two emails have gone unanswered and I presume that to be the village's attempt to avoid responding."
So, on April 11, 2013, over a month after the request was made, and after several excuses already, Kris Biernacki writes:
"I am not able to provide you with most of your FOIL request regarding legal services payments due to the fact that they can not be reasonably obtained. However, with respect to the records that can be accessed, I will provide them to you by August 2, 2013."
Flabbergasted at this incredible response, the requestor writes:
"Am I reading this correctly? Are you telling me (1) that you can't provide the village of Ravena's records for legal expenses? That they are cannot be "reasonably obtained?" and (2) that the records that can be accessed can be provided by "August 2, 2013?" Or is that a typo?"
Let the cat out of the bag!
Biernacki writes back, now she's telling the requestor that Mr Robert Freeman of the Committee on Open Government (Yeah! Right!) is telling her:
Per Robert Freeman, Executive Director of the Committee on Open Government, your demand for the legal services payments dating back to 1990 is not a reasonable request. The recent information that I can access will be provided to you by the date stated.
So, the requestor, patient and cooperative as always, writes:
"You could have said that earlier. I am amending the request to 2000-present.
" Notwithstanding the amendment, I have been extraordinarily patient in working with the village of Ravena, and agreed to extend on your request for more time because were involved with sewer and water billing.
"In future and in the case of any future FOIL demand, I would expect the courtesy of a timely response and timely advice if you or your office find a request unclear or "unreasonable." The handling of this request has been unacceptable."
In order to make it easier, the requestor knocks off 10 years and sits back waiting for the next excuse. He doesn't have to wait long. Kris Biernacki writes:
"This is in receipt to your FOIL amendment. Again, I will have the information to you on or before August 2, 2013."
The village of Ravena is saying that it will need more than 114 days to find it's records on payments made to lawyers. By now the requestor is reasonably irked and writes:
"That, I repeat, is outrageous.
" The FOIL continues as is and the village of Ravena is now in default of its affirmative obligations under the Freedom of Information Law.
" I expressly do not withdraw the FOIL in its currently amended form. The amendment was offered as a courtesy and to facilitate the village of Ravena's compliance within the time provided by the Freedom of Information Law. "The law is explicit and clear, Mr Freedman does not have legislative authority. The times set forth in the law are explicit and clear, as are the disallowed "excuses" for failure to comply.
" I hereby demand immediate compliance or the village of Ravena's explicit written refusal to comply.
"You may want to pass this by Mr Biscone if he's not too distracted by his sanctions battle. Yes, I'm watching that play out with considerable interest as I hope the local press is."
This is incredible. It's outrageous. It's Ravena. By the way, Mr Robert J. Freeman is "executive director", of the New York State Committee on Open Government. He's been on the payroll of the NY Department of State since about 1974—a bit too long, in our honest opinion—Freeman has worked for the New York State Committee on Open Government since its creation in 1974 and was appointed executive director in 1976. He's a bit too comfy in his little nest he's created for himself. Don't you think there's something bizarre about a state employee being executive director for more than 36 years?!? Isn't that a little, corrupt?
Robert J. Freeman
So here you have this guy, Bob Freeman, who's really firmly established in what we can reasonably call his little nest for more than 36 years, bloated with power, and making decisions on who gets what from government. A snotty little turd if there ever was one. And guess who's talking to him about the disclosure of Ravena's payments to lawyers (Teresi, Biscone, Rotello, Neri): Nancy Bicone-Warner, wife of village justice and ex-cop Harold "Hal" Warner. The same Nancy Biscone-Warner who is knee-deep in Cathy Deluca's little scam, the Ravena Health and Fitness Center. Yes, it's the same Nancy Biscone-Warner who haunts the village of Ravena offices 25/7, who has everyone there by the short-and-curlies. Now she's passing on inaccurate information to the Committee on Open Government, trying desperately to avoid having to disclose the village of Ravena's payments to the local legal incest club.
We know that Nancy Warner was faster than lightning on the phone to Freeman trying to get out of producing documents in regard to another F.O.I.L. And Bob Freeman is playing right along with them. Committee on Open Government? Guess again! Apparently it's a committee of one: Bob Freeman.
Do you expect anything different out of Albany, the cesspool of democrat corruption. Freeman's a lawyer. No doubt with connections with Joe Rotello, a clerk in the Court of Appeals, the Teresis, Ravena shyster Greg Teresi and dirty old dad, Joe Teresi on the NYS Supreme Court, Michael Biscone in Ravena, theyve all got their hands in the cash-box called the village of Ravena. And watchdog gatekeeper Nancy Biscone-Warner ain't letting anything get by her to upset the little party boat they have floating in taxpayer cash. And don't expect any help from the Albany County DA, P. David Soares. He likes to party, too.
Just a note: The town of Coeymans responded to the very same F.O.I.L. within a couple of days. Now, do you think something's up in the village of Ravena? Why are they fighting tooth-and-nail to avoid coming up with those documents? Do you think there's something they don't want residents to know. Maybe they're scared shiteless that if you get it, we'll see it. Do ya think?
This Just Adds Another Nail to Ravena's Coffin. The Village of Ravena Should Be Eliminated and Combined with the Hamlet of Coeymans, Administered by the Town of Coeymans.
Smiling Piggy Wins in the End
Don't hold it against Kristine Biernacki or Annette Demitraszek. They just do as they're told— like good little soldiers. Imagine if they make waves or use a village first-class postage stamp on a private mail item, they're on the street. Mummy mayor John Bruno and hatchet-woman Nancy Biscone-Warner don't like people with brains (shows them both up). Ravena Mayor John T. Bruno and Nancy Biscone-Warner apparently don't take prisoners, they just take advantage.
F.O.I.L is a FRAUD
Thanks to Nancy Biscone-Warner & Robert J. Freeman
Posted by Principal Editor on June 17, 2013 in Abuse of Public Office, ACLU, All the Justice You Can Buy, Annette Demitraszek, Bill Bailey, Burning the Constitution, Capital District, Civil Rights, Coeymans, Committee on Open Government, Committee on Professional Standards, Conspiracy, Corruption, David Soares, Deluca-Warner Fitness Center, F.O.I.L., FBI, FBI Criminal Information System, FBI Public Corruption Squad, FOIL, Government, Greg Teresi, Gregory Teresi, Hudson Valley, Investigation, Jerry Perrine, Joe Neri, Joe Rotello, Joe Teresi, John Neri, John T. Biscone, John T. Bruno, Joseph C Rotello, Joseph C. Teresi, Joseph Teresi, Kristine Biernacki, Martin Case, Marty Case, Mayor Bruno, Michael J. Biscone, Misconduct, Misuse of Public Office, Monitoring, Nancy Biscone-Warner, Nancy Warner, New Baltimore, New York, Notice of Claim, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, Office of the Attorney General, Politics, Public Corruption, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Village Attorney, Ravena Village Board, RCS Community, Removal of Mayor, Robert J. Freeman, Rocco Persico, SeeThroughNY, Selkirk, Transparency, Uncategorized, William Bailey
Taking Responsibility is A Community Duty
Parents Who Drop Off Their Teens
Must Expect That
They Are Also Dropping Off A Serious Responsibility
THANK YOU! MICHAEL FISHER !
Michael Fisher of the RC Youth and Teen Activities Center
Did the Right Thing!
And You Parents Should Be Grateful!
Did the Coeymans Police Officer in Car #922 Do the Right Thing?
Readers should note that the first part of the header above is a statement. Mr Michael Fisher did the right thing when he alerted the Coeymans Police that an who allegedly had the unmistakeable odor of alcohol on his breath took custody of a teenager, who was at the Teen Center, and then attempted to drive the teenager to an undisclosed location—we're assuming that the destination would be home but Who knows?— What we do know is that the readers—some eye-witnesses— who notified us of the incident agree that Michael Fisher did the right thing. We do, too!
You pass the baton of responsibility
You Delegate Authority and Responsibility
Any parent or guardian of a teenager who, on the one hand, delivers a teenager to the Teen Center and leaves that teenager there without also delegating the the management of the Teen Center the undisputed authority to ensure the teenagers physical, moral, and psychological welfare has, as it were, his or her head up his or her anus. When everything's going well and there's no incident everybody's happy-happy but when push-comes-to-shove and the serious questions get asked—or you have to wake up and face the real world—you all get scared shiteless. Right?
The RC Teen Center Has Been Doing A Stellar Job of Parenting YOUR Kids…
It's the Parents Who Dump Their Kids So They—the Parents—Can Party, Who Need the Whipping!
It's not the Teen Center or Michael Fisher who's on the carpet and needs a good ass-kicking. The RC Teen Center has been doing a stellar job of parenting YOUR kids. It's the parents who dump their kids on the RC Teen Center so that they—the PARENTS—can act like irresponsible dumbasses and party, who need the whipping! So let's get that point straight and clear.
In Fact, the RC Teen Center is the best thing to happen to this backwater half-dead town in decades! Until now "it's for the kids" was only an excuse for the adults in the RCS district to go around acting like jackasses. All their fundraisers and their bottle-drives were aimed at Look-at-me-doing-nice-nice, while in the background they were backstabbing and stealing anything they could get their hands on, including Fitness Centers. All of the hocus-pocus and hidden agendas and racketeering going on with the local sports associations can't make the adults look better than they are: they're terrible role models and pretty sorry excuses for human beings, too.
Then along comes the messianic figure of someone like Michael Fisher who puts his personal savings, his time, and especially his heart where his mouth is, and shows this community what real giving and love is, and he risks showing how dark and evil all of the others really are. That's a dangerous position to be in around here and we warned him about the two-facedness and hypocrisy that is resident in this town way back when he first started. It's time NOW, people, parents to stand behind and watch his back, while he's watching yours and your kids' backs. You OWE it to him because Michael Fisher is either one of the greatest frauds to come to Ravena Coeymans or he's one of the most genuine, authentic things available to your kids since school lunches in this ethics- and morality-starved nest of hypocrisy.
Can You Handle The Truth?
One thing is plain and clear, people: Your teenagers don't need shiny trophies out of the hands of arrogant tax avoiders, possibly criminals, who make you think they're making Olympians out of your kids (at the expense of their morals and minds!). Your teenagers don't need adults basking in the limelight amongst bags of bottles saying, "It's for the kid's; they need field trips." (And once on the field trip having the teacher chaperone takes off to party. Is the Martin Case incident still, yet being investigated?) Your kids don't need your tax money going to support an illegal Health and Fitness Center set up to provide a job to a local mob leader. Your kids don't need adults like Jerry Deluca, a police department employee, and Matt Miller, a teacher and union representative, showing up at Board of Education meeting and acting like drunks, and being expelled for their disorderly conduct. Your kids don't need role models like that!
Your kids need role models like Michael Fisher! Maybe YOU, parents, need role models like Michael Fisher, because from where we're standing you need a role model to be the example of how YOU should act responsibly!!!
Your kids need role models like Michael Fisher! YOU need role models like Michael Fisher…
Some More Painful Truth…
The RC Youth and Teen Activities Center has just turned 6-months old. It's NOT the product of our illustrious mayor John T. Bruno jumping in with a check for $40,000 to support an important new institution in the community. No! The more than $40,000 went to purchase used fitness equipment from a croney. It wasn't the village board of Ravena putting $115,500.00 in the 2013-14 village of Ravena budget to support youth programs! NO! That $115,000 went to the illegal Ravena Health and Fitness Center—every cent of it taxpayer money! And NO! it wasn't an allocation of $30,000 for a youth programs director, either. NO! That $30,000 is in the budget to support the director of the Ravena Health and Fitness Center, Cathy Deluca, the wife of Coeymans police investigator Jerry Deluca, the same Jerry Deluca who teamed up with Matthew Miller, one of your darling high-school teachers—the one who was double-dipping as energy manager, the one who was allegedly instigating bullying at the high school, the one promoting the questionably legal raffle now going on in RCS— to put on a performance of disorderly conduct at a board of education meeting, and then later to harass a local woman as she left the meeting. And the town of Coeymans? Nada, zilch, zero in youth programs! Unless you want to call the Coeymans Police Department and the holding cell there a "youth program." That's where your local government puts your money.
Mr Fischer did the only responsibile and reasonable thing available to him under the circumstances…he called the local police for assistance.
And speaking of the Coeymans Police Department. Last Friday evening Michael Fischer was caught in the death grip of a moral and legal Catch 22: He couldn't legally refuse to turn over a teenager to a parent or guardian who was, according to witnesses, obviously under the influence of at least alcohol. Nor could he in good conscience condone the irresponsibility of the adult and just allow him to drive off with the teenager in the car and forget about it. Mr Fisher did the only responsibile and reasonable thing available to him under the circumstances: he called local law enforcement for assistance. Not that that action did a whit of good!
And what happened then? Well, the dispatcher then proceeded to broadcast Michael Fischer's name and the situation over the airways to every local yahoo with a police-band receiver. Isn't that illegal? Isn't the name of the caller supposed to be confidential? And yes, the Coeymans Police did respond. The Coeymans Police did stop the car driven by the individual allegedly under the influence of one or more substances. And the Coeymans Police did, in fact, almost immediately allow the driver to get back into the car and drive on. "To Serve and to Protect." Question: Who in hell are they serving and protecting!?!?!?!
Here's what we have on the parent/guardian who picked up the teenager: He was only recently released from jail (we don't know yet why he was in). He allegedly had no license to drive. He had allegedly obviously and perceptibly been drinking. Question: Why did the investigating Coeymans Police officer (we don't know who s/he was but we'll know shortly) allow the suspect to go on his way, apparently no further questions asked? What's the whole story?
So, ladies and gentlemen, what you need to do is offer Michael Fisher a big community THANK YOU, MIKE, FOR KEEPING OUR KIDS SAFE! and drop off a personal check or a check from your organization or from your bank (ATTENTION: RCS Business Community—or what's left of you) to support the good work the RC Youth and Teen Activities Center is doing. And maybe, just maybe some of you parents can pick up a paintbrush or a hammer and lend a hand…in between romps and parties!
Your local government, the village of Ravena and the town of Coeymans, only seem to be able to divert funds to their friends or to arrest your kids; there's no money or interest in treating them with dignity, or protecting them. They leave that task to people like Mike Fisher and the RC Youth and Teen Activities Center. But one thing is certain: THE KIDS WILL REMEMBER WHO CARED!
Michael Fisher doesn't have to explain his actions. Chief Gregory Darlington has some questions that he needs to answer, and you should start asking them NOW! Here's his e-mail, telephone number, and address. Get the answers!
Gregory A. Darlington, Chief of Police
Coeymans Police Department
18 Russell Ave.
chiefofpolice@coeymans.org
police@coeymans.org
Non-Emergency Number: 518-756-2059
Investigation Division: 518-756-2059 Ext. 368
The Coeymans Police Department has a terrible record
for responding to citizens' inquiries and for ignoring complaints.
Do the community a real service and BE PERSISTENT!
Posted by Principal Editor on June 13, 2013 in Abuse, Accountability, Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families, AFL-CIO, Albany County District Attorney, Albany County Sheriff Department, Alice Whalen, Bill Bailey, Bitter Bob (Ross), Bob Ross, BoBo Cop, Bryan Rowzee, Capital District, Cathy Deluca, Children of Dysfunctional Families, Coeymanazis, Coeymans Police Department, Coeymans Town Attorney, Coeymans Town Board, Crime and Punishment, David Soares, Deluca-Warner Fitness Center, DoDo Cop, Dr Alan R. McCartney, Eleanor Luckacovic, Eleanor Oldham, Eliminate Coeymans Police Department, Endangering a Minor, Friends of RCS, Gerald Deluca, Greene County, Gregory Darlington, Hudson Valley, Hypocrisy, Indifference, indifference to the safety and welfare of a child, Investigation, James Latter, James Latter II, Jena Misuraca, Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, Jerry Deluca, Jerry Perrine, Joan Ross, John Luckacovic, John T. Bruno, Marlene McTigue, Martin Case, Marty Case, Mary Partridge-Brown, Matt "the Mutt", Matt Miller, Matthew J. Miller, Mayor Bruno, Melanie Lekocevic, Michael Biscone, Michael Fisher, Michael J. Biscone, Monitoring, Moose Misuraca, Nancy Warner, New Baltimore, New York, New York State, New York State United Teachers, News Herald, NYS Assembly, NYSUT, P. David Soares, Parent Negligence, Patrick E. Brown, Pete Lopez, Peter Masti, Ravena, Ravena Coeymans Youth and Teen Activities Center, Ravena Fitness Center, Ravena Health and Fitness Center, Ravena Shop'n Save, Ravena Village Board, Ravena-Coeymans Teen Center, RC Teen Activities Center, RCS Bottle Blitz, RCS Sports Association, RCS Teachers Association, RCSTA, RCSTA Executive Committee, RCSTA PAC, Responsibility, Rick Reith, Robert Fisk, Rocco Persico, Sarah Berchtold Engel, Sarah Engel, Selkirk, Stephen Flach, Stephen Prokrym, Steve Prokrym, Teacher Misconduct, Teachers Union, Thomas A. Boehm, Thomas E. Dolan, Tom Dolan, Transparency, Uncategorized, United Federation of Teachers, Village of Ravena Planning Board, William Bailey, Youth, Youth Bureau
Ravena Sports Association, Transparency? Nah!
We Realize That Local Residents Have Very Short Memories and 20-20 Hindsight… BUT….
Do Any of These Words Apply to the
RCS Sports Association?
Does Anyone Remember the Problems This Community Experienced with the "Old" RCS Sports Association, Its Non-Existent Financial and Tax Records? Its Total Refusal to Come Clean on Its Finances? (How about you, Mr James Latter, YOU Really Should Remember!) Maybe the Fact that It Disappeared Overnight and an "New" Poison Mushroom Sprouted up In The Night, the "New" RCS Sports Association Didn't Raise any Eyebrows or Suspicion? That's Bizarre.
Several weeks ago we published an article critical of the way the RCS Sports Association was going about running their "raffle." In that article, "Cart before the Horse: RCS Sports Association Operating a Shell Game [Again]?" (click on this LINK to read the article), we pointed out a number of scam – like features of the RCS Sports Association's so – called opportunities to win.
Now we all have to understand that the RCS Sports Association is running the raffle to raise money for the construction of a new concession stand to be built on RCS school property. That's the central theme why people are coughing up the $20 "donation" for each raffle ticket. So, because the RCS Sports Association is claiming that it is accepting "donations" and claims not to be selling "something," the concession stand will be donated to the school district and then becomes the property of the school district. In other words, the concession stand, as a donation, is not the property of the RCS Sports Association and the RCS CentralSchool District will have sole discretion as to who uses it, for what, and when. In other words, the refreshment stand will be public property. That's the good part but it's not the whole story.
In addition, because the RCS Sports Association is selling raffle tickets for a "donation" of $20 per ticket, and there is no disclaimer releasing the RCS Sports Association from claims resulting from their failure to raise enough money to keep the promise of building the concession stand, even though the architectural plans have been approved by an unidentified approver (the RCS Sports Association does not say who "approved" the plans). And what if they don't raise enough money to fund the construction project with all of the other obligations like insurance, bonds, etc.? And let's not forget the completion bond that the RCS Sports Association will have to come up with as a guarantee that the project will be completed, even if the RCS Sports Association can't complete it themselves.
Did anyone think to ask or does anyone know What the proposed total cost of the project is going to be? all things considered?
All of that has to be answered satisfactorily but for now, let's get back to the ongoing transparency problem
During the month of May the RCS Sports Association was publishing news about the raffle, handing out packets of raffle tickets, and selling tickets for a "donation,' generally preparing for the launch of the drawing in June.
We're now two weeks into the drawing and we haven't seen any lists of winners or winning numbers published anywhere! (Correction: The RCS Sports Association does list winners and ticked numbers on the RCS Sports Association Facebook page but you'll have to scroll through tons of other Facebook-type junk to find them.) Wouldn't it be appropriate to use the official newspaper for this community, the Ravena News Herald to publish an announcement of weekly winning numbers, at least, if not the names of the winners? Maybe elsewhere but not here and certainly not with the RCS Sports Association.
Don't You Want to Know, Too?
We'd Like to Know…And So We're Asking:
What's this concession stand supposed to look like? Doesn't the RCS Sports Association have an architect's conceptual drawing or model?
How many tickets were sold?
How much money was collected from sales?
How many winners have there been so far?
How many numbers have been drawn that are for unsold tickets (and revert back to the RCS Sports Association?)
How much money was paid out to winners so far?
Where are the drawings being done?
Who is doing the drawing?
Are the drawings public or open to the public?
Who is the independent, non – partisan supervisor of the drawing (if they are using lottery standards, it's usually a member of a CPA firm) to make sure there's no funny stuff going on?
Who is managing the money?
Where is the money being deposited?
What excuses are being made up as we write why all of this public information is not or cannot be disclosed?
Who is in charge of making up the excuses?
Will the minutes of the board of directors meeting discussing and approving the raffle be published?
The RCS Sports Association is claims to be a non – profit or a not – for – profit organization, but none of that information appears on the RCS Sports Association web site. Neither does a statement disclosing its tax status or tax identification number or non – profit / not – for – profit registration number. Nothing. (Check it out yourself. Go to their web site at RCS Sports Association, http://www.rcssa.net/index.html )
Haven't we seen this sort of behavior before? And didn't the "old" RCS Sports Association suddenly disappear and a "new" RCS Sports Association all of a sudden popped up with a new board of directors, especially after the questions were raised and the heat got turned up demanding tax documents and disclosure. Transparency?
We see a repeat performance here. Maybe the visible faces have changed but the behind – the – scenes faces may still be the same. Remember the recent scandals and criminal investigations linking organized crime to sports associations and high – school sports?
We'll send a request for investigation to the New York Secretary of State and the Office of the Attorney General. Maybe we can get some instant transparency.
In the meantime, all you sports fans, keep coughing up your money to the RCS Sports Association and watch it disappear! Now you can buy a brick with your name on it…and later hit yourself in the head with it for being so stupid!
You can also contact the officers of the RCS Sports Association and ask them these questions yourselves. Here is the list of officers. Or you can contact Jerry Perrine, who is not listed, but we're told he's behind the dog – and – pony – act calling itself the RCS Sports Association.
President: Doug Keyer
Vice President: Steve Vasto
Treasurer: Claudette Taylor
Secretary: Jena Misuraca
RCSSportsAssociation@hotmail.com
If anyone has any information regarding the questions listed above or any true facts relating to this article, please leave a comment!
Posted by Principal Editor on June 12, 2013 in Accountability, Albany County District Attorney, Alice Whalen, Banking Regulations, BOCES, Bray Engel, Bryan Rowzee, Claudette Taylor, Coeymans, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Doug Keyer, Dr Alan R. McCartney, Edward "Teddy" Reville, Edward Reville, FBI, FBI Criminal Information System, Football Coaches, Fraud, Gary Van DerZee, Gerald Deluca, Greene County, Howard "Bray" Engel, Hudson Valley, Investigation, James Latter, James Latter II, Jeff Lukens, Jeff Stambaugh, Jena Misuraca, Jerry "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, Jerry Perrine, Matt "the Mutt", Matt Miller, Matthew J. Miller, Melanie Lekocevic, Misconduct, Money Laundering, Monitoring, Moose Misuraca, New Baltimore, New York State Education Department, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, NYSED, NYSED Office of Counsel, Office of the Attorney General, Perp Patrol, Pete Lopez, Public Corruption, Raffle Ticket, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk, Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central School District, RCS Board of Education, RCS School Superintendant, RCS Sports Association, Robert Dorrance, Sarah Berchtold Engel, School Sports, Steve Vasto, Surveillance, Tax Evasion, Teddy Reville, Transparency
Update on Claim Filed Against Village of Ravena and Cathy Deluca
Mayor John T. Bruno, the Village of Ravena Board and Michael Biscone Attempt to Control Freedom of Speech! Read the Entire Story at:
Business as Usual in Ravena: Violation of Constitutional Rights!
The "Three Stooges of RCS" Are All in Hot Water Now!
Shown left to right are: Gerald "Dirty-Hands Jerry" Deluca, Deluca's partner Cathy Deluca, NYSUT union rep Matthew J. Miller a.k.a. "Matt the Mutt"
Availability of Public Access to the
Notice of Claim and Supporting Documents
[Please Note: This Site Is Not Intended To Nor Does It Provide Legal Advice! We Are Not Attorneys!]
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Also two other pending actions:
Matthew J. Miller
The first action is being brought against Matthew J. Miller, teacher and NYSUT teachers union representative and Gerald "Dirty-Hands" Deluca, member of the Coeymans Police Department, for disorderly conduct on RCS school property at a RCS board of education meeting, where they had to be expelled by the RCS CSD superintendent, Dr Allen McCartney. Miller and Deluca loitered outside waiting to harass a local woman as she was leaving the school. The woman has attempted to filed a complaint with the Coeymans Police Department and Officer P. McKenna has responded that the complaint is in process. We also see violations of the woman's First Amendment expressive activity and free speech protected rights here. We're monitoring its progress.
Now, with the Coeymans Police Department's record of arresting rowdy kids at basketball games, do you think it would taken very long for police investigator and perp Jerry Deluca to pull out his badge of shame and arrest anyone else for disorderly conduct, loitering, harassment if the perps weren't Deluca himself and his buddy, RCS high-school teacher and union rep, Matthew J. Miller? How long will RCS superintendent McCartney and NYSED continue to let Miller go rogue on residents and do nothing? Does everything have to turn into a federal investigation and lawsuit in the RCS district?
Gerald Deluca
Dirty-Hands Jerry
One big problem that faces the Coeymans Police is that perp Gerald Deluca is so close to chief Gregory Darlington, and he's also buddy-buddy with Matthew Miller, who is co-defendant with Deluca. How does the Coeymans PD expect to convince anyone that it can possibly be impartial and objective in this investigation? It's total crapola! While details are still confidential, we have information from a reliable source that other state agencies are watching this case, especially because it occurred on school property.
The second action is being brought against the Ravena Shop'n Save for violating the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment protected rights of two candidates for election to RCS CSD board of education seats. The management of the Ravena Shop'n Save violated the candidates' rights by denying them their right of free political activity in a public place, a right under the free expression provisions of the First Amendment. It appears also that the candidates protected rights to due process were also violated by the Ravena Shop'n Save management. We're keeping tabs on this development, too.
Violated First Amendment Rights of Campaigners
Now, Back To the Village of Ravena and Its "Health & Fitness Center", and Cathy Deluca!
Please Click on the Links Below to Read or Download the Documents
Notice of Claim against John T. Bruno, Cathy Deluca, Village of Ravena, Village of Ravena Trustees, Ravena Health and Fitness Center
Claimant's Affidavit in Support of Notice of Claim
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The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon (Editor)
Call Number: F311.5.N49 2012 Florida
Chapter 10: Free and Slave, by Jane Landers; Chapter 20: The African American Experience in Twentieth-Century Florida, by Maxine D. Jones
The African American Heritage of Florida by David R. Colburn (Editor); Jane L. Landers (Editor)
Call Number: E185.93 .F5 C65 1995 Florida
These 12 essays examine the rich and substantial African American heritage of Florida, documenting African American contributions to the state's history from the colonial era to the late 20th century.
Black Society in Spanish Florida by Jane Landers
Call Number: F320.N4L36 1999 Florida
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilat
Emancipation Betrayed by Paul Ortiz
Call Number: E185.93.F5 O78 2005 Florida
In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations--secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches--to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day.
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Call Number: KF224.G76K56 2013
Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before. As Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America's black migration, Gilbert King's Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous and uncertain case from the days immediately before Brown v. Board of Education in which the young civil rights attorney Marshall risked his life to defend a boy slated for the electric chair--saving him, against all odds, from being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.
Fed Up by Dale Finley Slongwhite
Call Number: HD1527.F6 S59 2014 Florida
This book provides an intimate look at the lives of former African-American farmworkers who labored in central Florida's farms along the shores of Lake Apopka. The author familiarizes readers with the history of Lake Apopka and the social and environmental injustice centered on food production that has taken place there.
Remembering Paradise Park: tourism and segregation at Silver Springs by Lu Vickers; Cynthia Wilson-Graham
Call Number: E185.93.F5V53 2015 Florida
Paradise Park was the "colored only" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks comprised one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water. Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow. Racial violence was at its height in Florida--the famous Groveland rape case happened right as Paradise Park opened--and many African Americans saw the park as a safe place for families. It was a popular vacation spot for the area's black community, one of the most cohesive and prosperous in the South. Tracing the color line through Florida's most famous spring, this book compares the park to other tourist destinations set aside for African Americans in the state and across the country. Though Silver Springs was Florida's only attraction to operate a parallel facility for African Americans, Paradise Park has been just a whisper in the story of Florida tourism until now.
St. Petersburg's Historic 22nd Street South by Jon Wilson; Rosalie Peck
Call Number: F319 .S24 P43 2006 Florida
With this powerful, evocative new book, St. Petersburg residents Jon Wilson and Rosalie Peck present an informative narrative that explores the history of St. Petersburg, Florida's most vibrant African American neighborhood: 22nd Street South or "the deuces." Throughout the city's history, no other area has personified strength for the African American community like this segregation-era thoroughfare. A haven during the brutal Jim Crow years, 22nd Street South was a place where prominent businessmen and community leaders were the role models and residents and neighbors looked out for one another. The close-knit community encouraged strong, positive values even as its members were treated as second-class citizens in the wider world. Authors Wilson and Peck tell the story of this unique district and how its people and events contributed to and helped to shape the history of St. Petersburg in the context of the greater South and the Civil Rights Movement.
Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z797 2005
A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as the Negro farthest down in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world.
The Silencing of Ruby Mccollum by Tammy Evans; Jacqueline Jones Royster (Foreword by); Lynn Worsham (Afterword by)
Call Number: KF224.M356 E94 2006 Florida
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand. In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder--a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions. To ensure this would become the official version of events, McCollum's trial prosecutors voiced multiple objections during her testimony to limit what she was allowed to say. Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice--historical research, feminist theory, African American literary criticism, African American history, and investigative journalism--Evans analyzes the texts surrounding the affair to suggest that an imposed code of silence demands not only the construction of an official story but also the transformation of a community's citizens into agents who will reproduce and perpetuate this version of events, improbable and unlikely though they may be.
Mary Mcleod Bethune in Florida by Ashley N. Robertson; Gwendolyn Boyd (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.97.B34 R63 2015 Florida
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the 'First Lady of Negro America,' but she made significan contributions to the politaical climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African American women for change. She created an environment in Daytona Beach that, despite racial tension throughtout the state, allowed Jackie Robinson to begin his journey to integrating Major League Baseball less than two miles away from her school. Today, her legacy lives through a number of institutions, including Bethune-Cookman University and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation National Historic Landmark. Historian Ashley Robertson explores the life, leadership and amazing contributions of this dynamic activist.
The Life and Times of Joseph E. Clark by Olga Mitchell; Gloria Magbie; Marion Elden (As told to)
Call Number: E185.97.C583 M58 2012 Florida
On August 15, 1887, 22 years out of slavery a group of 27 black men, including Joseph E. Clark, met in the Oddfellows Hall, a building donated to the new community by Lewis Lawrence, and voted on the question of incorporating the Town of Eatonville in Orange County, Florida in response to a legal notice advertised in the "Maitland Courier." These men, all residing within the boundaries of the proposed town, voted unanimously to incorporate the municipality, Eatonville, named for Capt. Josiah Eaton of Maitland, is recognized today as the oldest incorporated all-black town in the United States.
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Jonathan Daviss is an American actor best known for his role as Pope in the 2020 Netflix series Outer Banks. Jonathan hails from Conroe, Texas and later moved to Los Angeles, Jonathan Daviss California to pursue a career in acting. He initially worked as a sales executive in an insurance company. He later dived into full-time acting with the 2013 series Revolution. After appearing in Deliverance Creek, Shattered Memories, and Edge of Summer, he played Pope Hayward in Outer Banks. Jonathan also supports several social causes, such as the BLM movement.
Jonathan Davis is a rising TV star, starring as Pope in the Netflix series Outer Banks. He also showcased his acting skills in the 2018 TV show, Shattered Memories. Jonathan Davis was born in Conroe, Texas, the second child of Jonathan Davis Sr. and Yolanda Kramer Davis. He has three sisters, one elder and two younger. His father is a businessman. He graduated from Conroe High School in Texas and is currently matriculating at Santa Monica College in California. Jonathan Davis, in his early life, was interested in sports, especially basketball. He represented the Conroe Tigers High School team in Little League.
The age of Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Davis is 23 years old as of 2022. He celebrates his birthday on February 28. Their zodiac sign is Taurus. American television stars are African-American.
Jonathan Davis Height, Weight and Measurements
Jonathan Davis height is 6 feet and weight is 75 kg. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. He has maintained an athletic body. A planned diet and regular exercise are the secrets to her amazing body. Her US shoe size is 10. He has no tattoos on his body.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jonathan Davis
What show is Jonathan Davis on?
Jonathan Daviss has been in shows like Revolution, Baselines and Outer Banks.
Where is Jonathan Davis of the Outer Banks from?
He is from Conroe, Texas but was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
Is Jonathan Davis Haitian?
Yes, his parents are from Haiti.
Does Jonathan Davis Have Any Sisters?
Yes, he has two sisters named Jillian Davis and Jasmine Cleveland.
What is the nationality of Jonathan Davis?
He is American since he was born in America, but he also has Haitian roots.
How tall is Jonathan Davis?
His height is about 6 feet which is 1.83 meters.
In addition to being an actor, Jonathan Davis plays the guitar and has been spending most of the COVID-19 quarantine period playing the instrument at home. One of his favorite films is the 2000 animated film The Road to El Dorado, which told the story of two con artists on a treasure hunt in the fictional city of El Dorado. Jonathan has a mark on his foot. He got this injury as a child when an iron accidentally fell on his foot. He likes to relax and go hiking with his friends also enjoys beach vacations and was thrilled to be able to learn to sail while filming Outer Banks. Jonathan Davis net worth is estimated to be around 400 thousand dollars by 2022. He also likes comic books and anime.
He especially likes Kakashi Harate from the Naruto series. and his sister dressed up as the character during a family trip to Florida. Jonathan once took his family to a Naruto-themed restaurant in Orlando, called Naroodle. Jonathan is a huge fan of actor, rapper, and content creator Donald Glover and wants to be like him someday. He is also a vocal supporter of many social causes, one of them being the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
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Forests provide all kinds of value to our lives, from picturesque views, habitat for animals to the oxygen we breath and much more. Everyone can see the benefits of wild places and natural forests but we often negate the habitat in our back yards. Urban forests play a huge role in our day to day lives that we often don't appreciate. Cleaning the pollution from our air, reducing energy costs through insulating our neighborhoods, reducing the effects of wind and rain, and much more while simultaneously providing that warm and comfortable feeling we all associate with the presence of trees. Crispin is the Parks Manager and Urban Forester for the city of Edmonton. He came on to discuss the role of urban forests in our lives and provide some insight into their value. Cool link below to see the exact value of each tree in Edmonton, from energy savings, oxygen produced, carbon sequesteres and much more.


Plymouth Hoe East is a developed promenade area just below Smeaton's Lighthouse. The beach itself is rather small and composed of rocks and shingle. It has fine views over Plymouth Sound, a lively natural harbour at which there is always plenty of activities to sit and watch.
Plymouth Hoe is reputed to be the spot where Sir Francis Drake was famously playing bowls, a game which he decided to finish before setting out to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. A statue to the great adventurer commemorates this even, behind which is The Royal Citadel, a 17th century fortress still used by the military today.
This section of the coast is quite rocky and visitors wishing to enjoy an outdoor swim without the risks of entering the sea can enjoy a splash in Tinside Lido, a delightful 1930's art-deco saltwater swimming pool. The lido is open from the end of May until early September.


Fears are mounting that the prudential regulator may have to do more to slow down home lending growth following a surprise bounce in Sydney and Melbourne property prices.
AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver said a renewed surge in Sydney and Melbourne property prices provides a challenge for the RBA in assessing the economy.
CoreLogic RP Data figures released this week show combined capital city average home prices rose 1.6 per cent in May and 10 per cent year-on-year, driven by a 3.1 per cent rise in Sydney home values over May and a 1.6 per cent rise in Melbourne over the same month.
"After slowing through the latter part of last year, momentum in Sydney and Melbourne property prices have rebounded, perhaps as the initial impact of APRA's tightening measures have worn off and growth in lending to owner-occupiers picked up," Mr Oliver said.
Mr Oliver said the bounce in Sydney and Melbourne property prices could be temporary as it appears to be coming with low sales volumes in Sydney.
"If not, there will be more work for APRA to try and further slow down lending growth," he said.
CoreLogic RP Data head of research Tim Lawless noted that the number of events across CoreLogic's valuation platforms, which account for more than 95 per cent of bank valuation instructions, are up 6.7 per cent over the past 28 days, signalling an increase in mortgage-related activity.
"The extent to which investors are fuelling the latest surge in Sydney home values is difficult to quantify. However, housing finance data to March shows investors, as a proportion of all new mortgage commitments, have been trending higher since reaching a recent trough in November last year at 42.9 per cent," Mr Lawless said.
"The March data shows investors now comprise of 47.6 per cent of all new mortgage commitments which is the highest proportional reading since August last year.
Some banks have significantly transformed their mortgage books to meet the APRA guidelines, providing them with room to grab more share of the investor market.
For example, the composition of Westpac's mortgage portfolio has undergone a significant change over the last 12 months compared to its peers.
APRA Monthly Banking Statistics show Westpac's total mortgage book was valued at $356 billion at 29 February, up 8.1 per cent from February 2015.
However, a closer look at the composition of the bank's book reveals a 22.7 per cent surge in owner-occupied lending over the year, while the group's investor loan book fell by 9.5 per cent over the same period.
In comparison, all other majors grew their investor loan books over the 12 months to 29 February. ANZ recorded a 2.9 per cent increase, CBA grew its investor loan book by 3.0 per cent and NAB by 9.3 per cent.
Westpac announced last week that it had increased the maximum LVR for its investment loan products from 80 per cent to 90 per cent. The major lender was the only one of the big four to drop to 80 per cent and the change brings the bank in line with its three key competitors.
CoreLogic's Mr Lawless noted that the latest housing credit growth figures show that investor housing credit has advanced by just 7.1 per cent over the past year, its slowest annual growth rate since November 2013.
"Based on this, lenders now have scope to increase lending to investors," he said.
Mr Lawless said while the annual pace of growth has clearly reversed direction on the latest few months of data, the trend is still relatively fresh and may be short-lived.
"Despite lower mortgage rates in May, lending conditions are tighter now than they were a year ago.
"Recent data from APRA highlights that interest only lending is now at its lowest level since March 2013 and new mortgages with an LVR higher than 90 per cent are at the lowest reading since March 2011.
"With the federal election only a month away, we can expect housing to remain in the spotlight more than usual," Mr Lawless said.